ISS To Get Man Cave 123
Nancy_A writes "There might be a new favorite hang-out for astronauts aboard the International Space Station later this year. The Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) will become a permanent module on the station, and will be brought up on the STS-133 mission, scheduled for September 2010. The new module might provide a haven for astronauts to get away from it all. '"The thought is, the PMM might become sort of a 'man cave,'" said Mike Kinslow, the Boeing payload manager at the Kennedy Space Center. "It won't have all the background noise of fans, computers and other equipment running like in the laboratories, so it will be a quieter atmosphere that might appeal to the astronauts during their off-duty hours."' Plus, NASA's Robonaut 2, or R2 will be brought up on the same flight. Any chance R2 could be programmed to serve drinks or bring food into the man cave?"
Oh, Mike... (Score:5, Insightful)
"Man Cave?" Really? That's just wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to start.
Re:Oh, Mike... (Score:4, Insightful)
Okay, I've had a think and I believe I know where to start.
1.) It conjures up images of a Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor in space, "ooh, ooh, ohh. Look, I've turbo charged the vacuum toilet to AAIIIiii."
2.) It's such a dated cultural reference that the gay subculture has adopted the term ironically to refer to their rectums.
3.) There are women up there, too, right? So, claiming you got some hot action in your man cave, well, see point two.
4.) It is, and always has been, a corny phrase. Say it will be your "fortress of solitude" or something.
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Does the ISS have a basement?
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no but you could call it the tallest tower. after all there aren't any people above them.
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"Man cave" is also redundant. Men wander into caves and say yeah I'll live here. Women dig dens and build shelters.
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I suspect the vacuum toilet is better allround than Howard Wolowitz' zero-gravity human-waste disposal system.
Caution: Big Question (Score:3, Insightful)
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Of course they can use words how they like! So can I. Words like 'goofy' 'unprofessional' and 'silly.'
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I would love to see you at a party...
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Ever read 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus?' Unfortunately, I have. That's where the phrase 'man cave' comes from. It's a stupid phrase based on the stupid idea that men are all neanderthals who need the solitude of a nice cave to unwind. We're not all like that. For instance, I'm actually pretty fun at parties and consider socializing relaxing. Like a girl, if you believe the book.
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They *can* use any words they like, but the words they choose are open to critique. I am allowed to believe that people are wrong, and that their behavior is based on faulty premises. In this case, his choice of words shows that Mike Kinslow uses sexist terms from the 80's when talking about things my tax dollars help fund. I have written to him suggesting that he reexamine his assumptions about gender, behavior and career choices in light of a great deal of evidence that su
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How so? If I advocate for freedom over license, am I not advocating for my own free speech? Are you claiming I'm taking license by being an ass? How is it hurting anyone? I'm making a joke! Of course they can call it their 'man cave.' And I can laugh at them because I think that's a funny phrase.
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Oh, I get it. You thought I was complaining about the 'man' part of it. Nope. I was not saying, "ooh, MAN cave, that's sexist." I explained why I think it's a goofy phrase down below a bit. Man cave. Hehehe.
Besides, my sig is a quote. I can't very well misquote the guy, can I? He said men, but it was pretty clear he meant 'mankind' by the context. Man cave is sex specific, but again, that's not really the reason "Man cave" makes me chuckle.
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Oh, please. I'm the trollingest troll who ever trolled a troll here on Slashdot. I'm hardly offended.
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A wild Goatse appears. He starts with a small Dildo. It’s super-effective!
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What does he evolve into? No no no, never mind. I retract the question.
Women have one too (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Women have one too (Score:4, Funny)
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That's no cave.
Re:Oh, Mike... (Score:4, Funny)
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I think someone is going to see some hot action in their man cave tonight!
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The concept has been introduced in the 90s in the "new man" pseudo-psychology thinking of/for women.
The "mancave"-state of mind is described in "Men are from Mars, Women from Venus", where they describe men need some off-time staring in the fire to wind down, while women need to verbalize and socialize to achieve the same thing.
Hence resulting in conflict as the "man" wants to chil lout, watch a game, do man-stuff to process his day or forget about i
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Thanks for that definition. I think it helps explain why I find the phrase so ridiculous. I'd forgotten it was from that puerile book.
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Sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant. :-)
Do you suppress your man-cave-longings because it could be perceived as puerile? 'Cause I don't
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I don't have 'man-cave' longings because I like to socialize. Which makes me a girl according to the book. Which makes the book puerile, that is, childishly simplistic. Some women are introverts, not all guys need solitude.
Man cave longings are not childish. The book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus is childish. It's an entire inane book written around the idea that 'boys will be boys and girls will be girls' and while it may contain some generalities helpful to anyone who has never in their life had
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Heterogeneity between individuals will always dwarf homogeneity within genders. The sooner humans internalize this the sooner I can stop dealing with macho idiots, their assumptions and phrases like "mancave".
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If someone uses that phrase with you, I suggest this line of inquiry:
"Would you bring a hot woman into your man cave, to have sex with her?"
All straight men who use the phrase 'man cave' will answer yes to this question.
"So, you would enjoy some action in your man cave?"
If you can manage to get that line out with a straight face, he will probably answer yes. This next bit is significantly harder, as it may require you to feign attraction to the troglodyte in order to throw him off: "Oooh, sexy! You want to
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Gosh, I wonder what THAT will be used for.... (Score:5, Funny)
Just remember to turn the mic to Houston off of VOX.
HOUSTON: "Uhhh, were getting a pretty steady 2-3 Hz slapping sound down here guys. Are all systems ok up there, and any ideas on a cause?"
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Just remember to turn the mic to Houston off of VOX.
HOUSTON: "Uhhh, were getting a pretty steady 2-3 Hz slapping sound down here guys. Are all systems ok up there, and any ideas on a cause?"
Houston, we have lift off
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2-3 Hz slapping sound
Hahaha, that's hilarious
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Houston, we have lift off
and for the premature ejaculating astronauts, "Houston, we have a problem".
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Houston, we have lift off
That's one small fap for man, one giant cream for mankind.
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Reminds me of the best line to end a Bond movie, ever. From Moonraker:
M: What's Bond doing?
Q: I think he's attempting re-entry, sir!
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I christen thee: The Masturbation Station!
Re:Gosh, I wonder what THAT will be used for.... (Score:4, Funny)
I christen thee: The Masturbation Station!
Better then calling it the Man Hole I guess
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the Man Hole is a gay bar in Chicago :-)
In space... (Score:4, Funny)
... no one can hear you wank.
Re:Gosh, I wonder what THAT will be used for.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Just remember to turn the mic to Houston off of VOX.
HOUSTON: "Uhhh, were getting a pretty steady 2-3 Hz slapping sound down here guys. Are all systems ok up there, and any ideas on a cause?"
Houston, ISS. We report it as a steady 2-3 Hz fapping sound, not slapping. The cause appears to be us being STUCK IN ORBIT FOR SIX MONTHS! Over.
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There are lady astronauts as well. Perhaps it could be a make out pad. They could put a sign on the door that says "Don't come a knockin' if the module's a rockin'".
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It's not very big, but you don't have to pay. Therefore...
We'll call it a stay-free mini-pad. The ladies will love it.
Commands to the robot (Score:1, Funny)
You should be able to program the drink-serving robot so that you can utter a quick command without say missing something on the space-sized big screen tv. Some command for example to get drinks for two could be D2 (meaning drinks for two). You would thus, command the robot by getting its attention and ordering by uttering thusly: R2D2!
If you could threaten to have a restraining bolt installed if it should disobey, things could get very cosy.
Man Cave = Trash Can (Score:4, Funny)
The Leonardo Logistics Module is most commonly used as a Trash Can, bringing garbage back from the ISS.
That seems appropriate as a Man Cave.
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I wonder if it stinks on the ISS... no one ever mentions what the air is like
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OMG! NOOOO!!! (Score:4, Funny)
This is how "Silent Running" started! ;-)
Yawn... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yawn... (Score:4, Funny)
Pinball at zero gravity (Score:1)
Come on Slashdot (Score:5, Informative)
I can understand that a mainstream (non-tech) news website would focus on a cutesy term like "man cave" to describe this new module, but would it have killed the Slashdot editors to include something about what the module is actually going to be used for?
(turns out it'll be used as a storeroom. It doesn't have enough radiation shielding to allow it to be used as crew quarters).
No, it's not a "man cave", and no, the R2 robot will not be used to serve drinks. It'll be used to investigate the potential of robots to perform EVA duties.
Re:Come on Slashdot (Score:5, Interesting)
As far as I'm aware, Robonaut 2 isn't even functional yet, let alone ready for flight testing. Did the writer just make this up?
Can anyone provide any references to show that Robonaut 2 is going to fly on STS-133? So far as I can tell, this is the only article on the web that even ties Robonaut 2 to the PMM.
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She didn't make it up, she quoted a senior official - the Boeing payload manager at KSC (Mike Kinslow). This is the first public mention that I've seen, but it is in the planning stages (as a recent addition, which is why this is the first public mention of it).
Re:Come on Slashdot (Score:5, Informative)
I can understand that a mainstream (non-tech) news website would focus on a cutesy term like "man cave" to describe this new module, but would it have killed the Slashdot editors to include something about what the module is actually going to be used for?
(turns out it'll be used as a storeroom. It doesn't have enough radiation shielding to allow it to be used as crew quarters).
No, it's not a "man cave", and no, the R2 robot will not be used to serve drinks. It'll be used to investigate the potential of robots to perform EVA duties.
The article states that at the moment it doesn't have enough radiation shielding yet, but it will have it and be ready in 4 months. From the article:
"Turning Leonardo into a permanent module will take some work, said NASA Payload Manager Joe Delai. "Once it returns from this flight we will beef up the external shield and change things internally to become a permanent module. It will be about a four month process to get it ready."
Thats why it will be re-launched in September this year. And when it is relaunched and made a permanent module it will become their 'man cave'.
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"Turning Leonardo into a permanent module will take some work, said NASA Payload Manager Joe Delai. "Once it returns from this flight we will beef up the external shield and change things internally to become a permanent module. It will be about a four month process to get it ready."
Thats why it will be re-launched in September this year. And when it is relaunched and made a permanent module it will become their 'man cave'.
Permanent: means it lasts until ISS de-orbit in 2016. Yup, idiocy still planned. See: (In glorious PowerPoint)
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/386764main_09-15-09_Human_Spaceflight_Testimony.pdf [nasa.gov]
http://titan04.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/nexgen/Nexgen_Downloads/378555main_02-Sally_Charts_v11.ppt [nasa.gov]
Or just search via Google: for iss +"de-orbit" site:nasa.gov
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iss+%22de-orbit%22+site%3Anasa.gov [google.com]
The prototypical implementation... (Score:2)
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I can understand that a mainstream (non-tech) news website would focus on a cutesy term like "man cave" to describe this new module, but would it have killed the Slashdot editors to include something about what the module is actually going to be used for?
(turns out it'll be used as a storeroom. It doesn't have enough radiation shielding to allow it to be used as crew quarters).
No, it's not a "man cave", and no, the R2 robot will not be used to serve drinks. It'll be used to investigate the potential of robots to perform EVA duties.
If there isn't much in the way of radiation shielding for this new module why would the astronauts want to use it at all, let alone as a frequent place for R&R?
R2 (Score:1, Insightful)
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Robonaut 2 will fly on STS-133? Since when? (Score:2, Interesting)
Uhhh.. the article provides no references.. so I don't know where Nancy Atkinson is getting this information from.
As far as I'm aware, Robonaut 2 isn't even functional yet, let alone ready for flight testing. Did the writer just make this up?
Leaving aside the obvious sexist overtones of the article, it's almost entirely a rehash of last year's news that the Leonardo MPLM will be modified to be left permanently attached to the station [spaceflightnow.com] when it flies on STS-133, becoming the Permanent Multi-Purpose Module. [nasa.gov]
Wha
Serving drinks (Score:4, Insightful)
R2 was perfectly capable of serving drinks on Jabba's sail barge so I don't see why he couldn't do it on the ISS?
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Well since the ISS spends most of its time in free fall, it is a zero-g environment.
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"R2, fix me another Velcro Martini. Magnetically stirred, of course."
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Now we know where they all are: ISS Minibar.
Yay! Cave men in space! (Score:3, Funny)
No need to shave or change clothes.
A man's paradise.
Decent audio gear? (Score:1)
Call it something else! (Score:1, Insightful)
Why don't they just call it something like a "Space Lounge". Sounds much nicer than "Man Cave".
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"Space Lounge" just doesn't have the same homoerotic overtones!
What about 10-Forward? (Score:1)
OK, so what was the name of the bar on the Venus Equilateral, from George O Smith's series of the same name (as the space station, not the bar)?
Doesn't space travel need masturbation rooms? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Yeah, and R2 could make sure you do a good job of it too, clean up afterwards and everything. In fact, they should equip the thing with a big "rack" to "give rise" to the astronauts. Also, then they could call him R2D2!
(I realize the joke was totally stupid, feel free to point out one or several of the many ways in which I achieved fail)
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At first I was thinking why does a web server need (Score:1)
holodeck? (Score:1)
Is there any reason they can't install the holodeck in a cylindrical compartment?
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"Man Cave"? Feh! (Score:2)
Ten Forward.
With a fridge for cold drinks. And a Flatscreen.
Xbox? Of course.
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finally a valid excuse for blasting whoopy goldberg of the planet!
off topic, i wonder how the disc-tray stuff on the xbox would work in zero-G, makes game swapping an interesting experience i'd say
drinks in space (Score:3, Interesting)
are astronauts allowed to drink any alcohol?
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Sure, just at 4:20 when they smoke up. Thank God for geosynchronous orbits.
Batman reference? (Score:2)
One of these scientists just watched too much television ... ... Back to the bat cave!
R2 to be programmed to serve drinks? (Score:1)
I can see where this is going (Score:2)
OK, so does somebody want to bet that DVD with the Wah-wah guitar music and the pizza delivery guy will be on steady loop play in there on something with a screen?
are you crazy? (Score:1)
why make Robonaut 2 bring drinks to male astronauts when there are female astronauts who could serve drinks? LOL
Needs a billiard table (Score:2)
Also more ashtrays, a kegerator and a HDTV. Then it will be a man cave. Not to be confused with the bar "The Man Hole" (entrance in rear).
I wonder how one plays billiards in microgravity?
Houston we have a problem... (Score:1)
There seems to be a pearl necklace floating in the man cave. Who didn't clean up?
Also, we are running out of paper towels.